--- title: Joe Biden Just Said He Would Run for President in 2020 description: Vice President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that he might run for president in 2020 canonical: https://time.com/4591498/joe-biden-president-election-2020/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-06T00:42:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:09:25.557Z article:section: Politics og:title: Joe Biden Said He Would Run for President in 2020. 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Guillermo Legaria—AFP/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 6, 2016 12:42 AM UTC Vice President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that he might run for president in 2020. “Yeah, I am. I am going to run in 2020,” Biden told reporters when asked if he would run for office again. Asked whether he was kidding, Biden said he wasn’t making a commitment to run, [CNBC reported](http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/05/joe-biden-predicts-he-will-run-for-president-in-2020-adds-that-he-is-not-yet-committed.html). “I’m not committing not to run,” he said. “I’m not committed to anything. I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening.” Biden had considered running in the 2016 election, but said the [death of his eldest son Beau](http://time.com/4326174/joe-biden-best-president-2016-election/) in 2015 to cancer was too much for him to bear on the campaign trail. 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